The Effects of Dams- Many people have already dammed a small stream using sticks and mud by the time they become adults. Humans have used dams since early civilization, because four-thousand years ago they became aware that floods and droughts affected their well-being and so they began to build dams to protect themselves from these effects.1 The basic principles of dams still apply today as they did before; a dam must prevent water from being …showed first 75 words of 1208 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1208 total…consquence. The preservation of our environment is the key to the preservation of people. We cannot exchange money for the deterioration of our own animals, plants and land. The is the environmental age and humans must respond by changing their ways and looking at the long-term prospect instead of the short-term. Until we as the users and protectors of the land can do this, future of our great human civilization will continue to look grim.